Community Co-ordinator - The Washwood Heath Adaption and Sustainability Hub (The WASH)

We are seeking an experienced volunteer and community engagement professional with a genuine passion for nature and climate to help deliver our new WASH project.

Norton Hall is a small, but growing charity with a vibrant team based in and working with the community of Wash wood Heath, in East Birmingham.  The WASH will be based at our Dolphin Women’s Centre in Ward End Park; a much valued, Green Flag accredited 54-acre public space with a Lake and the Wash Brook. 

Thanks to National Lottery players, Norton Hall has received a five-year grant from The National Lottery Community Fund.   

The funding will be used to engage our local community in nature and climate learning activities, connecting them with the rural environment, increasing their connection to their surroundings and encouraging them to understand what it means to them.  Shaped by volunteers, service users and partners, the WASH aims to see improvements in everyday lives, including food and growing skills, career opportunities, improved mental and physical health, and confidence building.

To succeed in this role, you will have good experience of supporting volunteers from a range of backgrounds and delivering community events, ideally within an inner city setting.  Your interpersonal and communication skills will enable you to develop excellent relationships with community, organisations, volunteers, partners and beneficiaries.

You will be a self-motivated individual, whose organisational skills will help you ensure that our volunteers have everything to fulfil their roles and to help achieve project objectives.  Ideally you will have had experience of involving volunteers and service users in decision making and ideally you will speak Urdu which is our main community language.

We will inform candidates who have been shortlisted for interview on Friday 26th July and we will be interviewing for this position on Wednesday 31st July.  In person interviews are preferred but we can accommodate online participation.  We welcome applications from people who have a disability.  We can only accept applications from people with the right to work in the UK and are unable to sponsor working visa applications.

If you would like an informal conversation about this role please contact our Chief Executive Officer Suzanne Knipe.

Please note that CVs will not be accepted, and that you will need to include a cover email with your application outlining how your experience, skills and attributes makes you an ideal candidate for the role.